ibroxwonder Posted February 24, 2009 Posted February 24, 2009 Gordon Smith has made a further call for this... Scottish Football Association chief executive Gordon Smith wants to introduce a two-month winter break. With Motherwell's match against Celtic on Sunday being played on a dreadful surface at Fir Park, Smith reckons the game would be improved by a shutdown. He would like the season to kick off in August, close during January and February, and then run until June. Smith said: "We're in discussions about whether we can make changes and looking at things we agree can be improved." In December last year, a spokesman for the Scottish Premier League said: "Season 2009/10 will not include a winter break given the constraints presented by the early finish to the season required by Fifa ahead of the World Cup finals in South Africa." If there is no movement for next season, Smith's best hope would be to convince the leagues to adopt the break from season 2009/10. Some clubs are concerned that a winter shutdown would mean they have no income from gate receipts for the duration of the break. However, Smith says he would consider easing the lean financial spell for clubs. "The cashflow problem from a winter break would only be an initial one as you would still end up with the same number of games over the course of a year," said Smith. "But we might need to look at loans. If there was an agreement, we could see if there was some way of taking care of that financial aspect." Meanwhile, Motherwell general manager Leeann Dempster says the club will spend £250,000 in the summer in an attempt to overhaul the Fir Park pitch. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/s...rem/7907574.stm Two months? They have enough bother fitting the games in as it is to be fair. Close season would be cut down, I wonder how the players feel about it.
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